"We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?"

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Source : 'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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